Richard Milhous Nixon quote: "This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely."

We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent....
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

There are these and other great causes that we were elected overwhelmingly to carry forward in Novem...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts lik...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term Presiden...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolut...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

You think of those kids out there. I say kids. I have seen them. They are the greatest. You see thes...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burd...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

When I am the candidate, I run the campaign.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

We are not bent on conquest or on threatening others. But we do have a nuclear umbrella that can pro...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on t...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he i...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

In our own lives, let each of us asknot just what government will do for me, but what can I do for m...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

Our idea is to create a situation in which those lands to which we have obligations or in which we h...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

To make it possible for our children, and for our childrens children, to live in a world of peace. T...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

Nothing matters more to the future of this Nation than insuring that our young men and women learn t...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in ...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

I concede!
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than hi...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

If you think the United States has stood still, who built The largest shopping center in the world?
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all th...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

People react to fear, not love --they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a ...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another -- until we speak quietly eno...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top -- or on the bottom. I guess I'm som...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the pe...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the hi...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them; and then you destroy yourself.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them-and then...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit.
To find that answer, we need only loo...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished w...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in de...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. Yo...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignat...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give the...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

Well, I'm not a crook.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

I have impeached myself by resigning.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public fig...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

My strong point is not rhetoric , it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises - those things that cr...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are t...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

The sky is no longer the limit.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us f...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us f...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then...
RICHARD NIXON

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
RICHARD NIXON

You have to protect the privacy of the advice you get, or you'll never get the advice you need.
RICHARD NIXON

All lasting change is incremented, based on unfolding traditions and developing institutions. Revol...
RICHARD NIXON

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enou...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpe...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates bla...
RICHARD M. NIXON

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects...
RICHARD M. NIXON

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerou...
RICHARD M. NIXON

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise ...
RICHARD M. NIXON

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
RICHARD M. NIXON

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all th...
RICHARD M. NIXON

There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as ...
RICHARD M. NIXON

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us f...
RICHARD M. NIXON

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
RICHARD M. NIXON

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
RICHARD M. NIXON

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
RICHARD M. NIXON

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
RICHARD M. NIXON

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
RICHARD M. NIXON

I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.
RICHARD M. NIXON

If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts li...
RICHARD M. NIXON

I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-term Presiden...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Let's destroy this young demagogue before he becomes another Ralph Nader. (about John Kerry)
RICHARD M. NIXON

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others m...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then ...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government...
RICHARD M. NIXON

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
RICHARD M. NIXON

He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monument...
RICHARD M. NIXON

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did ...
RICHARD M. NIXON

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it i...
RICHARD M. NIXON

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent....
RICHARD M. NIXON

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's f...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Voters quickly forget what a man says.
RICHARD M. NIXON

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may ...
RICHARD M. NIXON

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinc...
RICHARD M. NIXON

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the ...
RICHARD M. NIXON

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conferenc...
RICHARD M. NIXON

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for ...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.
RICHARD M. NIXON

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for any...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
RICHARD M. NIXON

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess ...
RICHARD M. NIXON

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.
RICHARD M. NIXON

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.
RICHARD M. NIXON

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my pre...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?
RICHARD M. NIXON

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
RICHARD M. NIXON

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But hi...
RICHARD M. NIXON

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the m...
RICHARD M. NIXON

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
RICHARD M. NIXON

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
RICHARD M. NIXON

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the hi...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qua...
RICHARD M. NIXON

I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.
RICHARD M. NIXON

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises h...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he ...
RICHARD M. NIXON

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
RICHARD M. NIXON

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven ho...
RICHARD M. NIXON

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
RICHARD M. NIXON

I would have made a good Pope.
RICHARD M. NIXON

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may ...
RICHARD M. NIXON

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're real...
RICHARD M. NIXON

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyho...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don'...
RICHARD M. NIXON

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both pol...
RICHARD M. NIXON

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see...
RICHARD M. NIXON

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, an...
RICHARD M. NIXON

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resig...
RICHARD M. NIXON

I am not a crook.
RICHARD M. NIXON

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earn...
RICHARD M. NIXON

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by ...
RICHARD M. NIXON

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconcilia...
RICHARD M. NIXON

I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I...
RICHARD M. NIXON

This land of ours cannot be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
RICHARD M. NIXON

Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.
RICHARD M. NIXON

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
RICHARD M. NIXON

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There a...
RICHARD M. NIXON

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he st...
RICHARD M. NIXON

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Ita...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
RICHARD M. NIXON

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than hi...
RICHARD M. NIXON

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
RICHARD M. NIXON

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.
RICHARD M. NIXON

It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die None of ...
RICHARD M. NIXON

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American peo...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the d...
RICHARD M. NIXON

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignati...
RICHARD M. NIXON

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someon...
RICHARD M. NIXON

People in the media say they must look at the president with a microscope. Now, I don't mind a micro...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
RICHARD M. NIXON

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public fig...
RICHARD M. NIXON

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours....
RICHARD M. NIXON

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is les...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And ...
RICHARD M. NIXON

The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when youre rea...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.
RICHARD M. NIXON

When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.
RICHARD M. NIXON

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.
RICHARD M. NIXON

I want you to stonewall it.
RICHARD M. NIXON

We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, an...
RICHARD M. NIXON

What was Watergate? A little bugging! Richard M
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I have impeached myself by resigning.
RICHARD M. NIXON

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you'...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them—and th...
RICHARD MILHOUSE NIXON

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
RICHARD M. NIXON

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape...
RICHARD M. NIXON

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
RICHARD M. NIXON

The Jews are irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards
RICHARD M. NIXON

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anythin...
RICHARD M. NIXON

You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses storming around about this issue.
RICHARD M. NIXON

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong tea...
RICHARD M. NIXON

My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things that creat...
RICHARD M. NIXON

I concede!
RICHARD M. NIXON

What does that candyass think I sent him over there for?
RICHARD M. NIXON

The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the pe...
RICHARD M. NIXON

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Well, I'm not a crook.
RICHARD M. NIXON

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.
RICHARD M. NIXON

People who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they like.
RICHARD M. NIXON

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my preside...
RICHARD M. NIXON

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
RICHARD M. NIXON

A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop...
RICHARD M. NIXON

Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate the man then ...
RICHARD M. NIXON

There was some really good food out there. There was a really good quail dish and ribs.
RICHARD M. NIXON

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extingu...
RICHARD M. NIXON

There will be no whitewash in the White House.
RICHARD M. NIXON

Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished whe...
RICHARD M. NIXON

This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely.

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